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The collected shorts of Jan Svankmajer
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- Summary
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Collection of short films by Svankmajer created with puppets, humans, stop-motion animation and live-action.
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- Included Titles
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- The early years
- The later years
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- Czech
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Brooklyn, N.Y. : KimStim ; [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2003]
- ©2003
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 2 videodiscs : sound color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 guide sheets (inserted in containers)
- OCLC
- ocm53827834
- Vol. 1 is subtitled "The early years" and includes short films from 1965-1980; vol. 2 is subtitled "The later years" and includes short films from 1982-1992.
- Special features: Selected artwork; essay "Filmmaker as Alchemist"; Trailer for "Little Otik"; poems "Economical suicide" and "In the cellar"; BBC documentary "Animator of Prague"; Biographical sketch; Filmography; Title index.
- DVD ; Dolby digital, mono.
- Czech and English with English subtitles.
- v. 1. The fall of the House of Usher (1980, 15 min.) -- A game with stones (1965, 9 min.) -- Et cetera (1966, 7 min.) -- Punch and Judy (1966, 10 min.) -- The flat (1968, 13 min.) -- Picnic with Weissmann (1969, 13 min.) -- A quiet week in the house (1969, 19 min.) -- v. 2. Dimensions of dialogue (1982, 12 min.) -- Down to the cellar (1983, 15 min.) -- The pendulum, the pit and hope (1983, 16 min.) -- Meat love (1988, 1 min.) -- Flora (1989, 20 sec.) -- The death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990, 15 min.) -- Food (1992, 17 min.)